Example sentences of "[verb] he be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Antony says how , basically , that he is going to lie about the conspirators , and the crowd will know he is meaning the opposite . |
| 2 | And how do you know he 's fled the country ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I said , ’ Newman repeated slowly , ‘ how do you know he 's fled the country ? ’ |
| 4 | They will say ‘ I did n't know he was hoarding the tablets ’ or ‘ If only I had listened to what he was saying , maybe he was trying to tell me how he felt , and I was always too busy to listen . ’ |
| 5 | Billy — big brother of boxing hero Terry Marsh — insists on being called Jilly after announcing he is planning a sex-change . |
| 6 | This is believed to be Eddy Shah , the media entrepreneur who has claimed he was offered the Edwards shares for £16m . |
| 7 | How he knew from which coach to retrieve her is a puzzle ; I expect he was telling a tale , but even this made him a very disagreeable character . |
| 8 | And when he was caught he was given a bowl of Winalot dog food , he alleged . |
| 9 | And when he was caught he was given a bowl of Winalot dog food , he alleged . |
| 10 | With his ostrich outfit , make-up and deliberately not playing the synthesizer in order to question playing the synthesizer , Brain soon found he was stealing the scenery from Bryan , the suave debonair bloke who led Roxy music … |
| 11 | Husband said : ‘ It went wrong , badly wrong , ’ then lit a match and Sims found he was holding the ball again . |
| 12 | But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch . |
| 13 | Isobel Winick shopped husband Steve , 45 , to bosses for taking tools home after she found he was having an affair . |
| 14 | Robinson , who was England B coach with Alan Davies until both were dumped in the summer , reluctantly accepts he is fighting a lost cause : ‘ It is n't going to happen and the situation is beginning to get worrying . |
| 15 | At home in Belgrade , the Serb capital , Mr Milosevic is promoting the Vance-Owen plan in the face of opposition from extreme nationalists , who say he is betraying the Bosnian Serbs , and democrats , who say his nationalism has landed the country in a disastrous mess . |
| 16 | Keepers say he is making the right moves with five females at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park near Chard , Somerset . |
| 17 | But , as Ronnie Convery found out , within the Church itself he 's under fire from some liberal Catholics who say he 's turning the clock back . |
| 18 | Police hunting a drugs importer who was involved in the death of a cocaine courier say he 's left the country . |
| 19 | Cynics also believed he was taking a great risk when he cast Jason Donovan and Phillip Schofield in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , but both have been great successes . |
| 20 | Quite frequently a certain plant was reordered under a different name from the correct one and consequently the nurseryman , who honestly believed he was fulfilling the order , was dubbed a ‘ knave or a blockhead ’ , whereas the fault lay with ‘ too much dependence upon careless naming by an unexperienced author ’ . |
| 21 | On the day on which Saad Rashid had received the confirmation of the transaction from Switzerland , he had tidied his desk at the back of the Iraqi Airlines office , taken what few personal possessions he kept there and placed them in his briefcase , locked his door , pocketed his key , and told his assistant manager that he believed he was showing the first symptoms of the ‘ flu that was sweeping London . |
| 22 | Midfielder Bull believed he was to become a Manchester United player after a man claiming to be United managing director Martin Edwards agreed a £500,000 deal with manager Barry Fry and chairman Stan Flashman . |
| 23 | She told him that she firmly believed he was missing an experience to be treasured . |
| 24 | The Headteacher at Headlands School says he 's conducting an investigation and wo n't comment until it 's complete . |
| 25 | He says he 's detected a slow-down in discount rates , but reckons the market will take two years to recover . |
| 26 | Her other son , fourteen year old Andrew already goes to the Exeter School , and she says he 's getting a much better education : |
| 27 | Burns , at 19 Ireland 's most exciting talent since Ronan Rafferty , says he 's hoping the wind blows hard , and so is McGimpsey . |
| 28 | He says he 's arresting the driver for exceeding the speed limit . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's a person here who says he 's taken an overdose . |
| 30 | Richard Tuthill says he 's enjoyed the rally . |